RICHARDSON JANE 19/10/2013 N.A.T.F KOALA

Cabbage Tree Jenny and Richardson Jane. Named after their locations So they are NATF koalas, Jenny deteriorated last night and Loreto took her back to Medowie surgery and the descission was made to euthanise. Burnt airways and full thickness burns to all 4 feet,face,nose,eyes,ears and back of head. These photos are of Richardson Jane. She had X-Rays of all 4 paws and lungs this morning . Luckily lungs are only slightly compromised ,so can treat with Ventolin puffer. Both back feet have nail bed damage to digits 2&3. She has already lost the nails on left foot. Front feet are a bit better with nail damage only to digit 2 on left hand. She has a badly burnt nose and chin.Astoundingly she ate all the leaf in her basket last night and I got some oral fluid into her at midnight . She is 5•3kg so attitude goes with her size and sex.I am giving her slight sedation to treat feet twice a day. She is having heaps of pain relief. Burns are just the most awful things, poor girl. But she just might be the one to survive this trauma. Giving it everything I've got, lets see how much she has got. Sue

23/10/2013Hi Guys , our poor little burnt girl is doing quite well considering. She is eating her head off, her pellets are beautiful, moist and large. She was weighed this morning and has gained 660 grams, making her 5•98 kg. So I am assuming she has well and truly dehydrated . . Will take some more photos soon. Cheers Sue

29/10/2013

Richardson Jane is improving greatly with all thehorrible burnt skin around her nose and eyes gradually peeling off with newskin underneath. As you can see in the photo the really nasty fullthickness burn on her chin looks like it is going to come off in one bigpiece as it is lifting all the way around the edge. Her front paws arehealing beautifully and don't need
mittens just Sylvazine. The back paws aregetting there She had to have a bath this morning so we are going to try the cage with all the logs wrapped insheets to protect new skin on her feet.We are going to leave the back feet uncovered and just apply cream often. Weare hoping being in the cage will be a nice change for her Sounds like a good plan,will just have to see what she thinks and whether she feels likecooperating. Cheers Sue

6/11/2013

Hi Guy's, Here are some photos taken this morning before the dreadedcream went on. She is healing well but looks just awful at the moment. Thedead skin on her chin is hanging by a thread but looking at what'sunderneath you can see how deep the burn is and I think it will probablypeel again. The feet are looking really good and so is her nose and the lefteye. There was not a leaf left in her cage this morning and she is doingclose to 200 pellets a day. I'm really happy with her I just wished she feltthe same about me. She would never take a supplementary feed and I wish shehad because then there would be something that she enjoyed we could do eachday. .SUE

2/12/2013

This is Miss Richardson Jane today when I TOOK HER TO PORT MACQUARIE KOALA HOSPITAL. You cantell by the look she still doesn't like me. She looks really good and I'mpleased
with her feet. She would only show me one of the back ones but wasobliging with the front feet. S

9/5/2013

SHE'S HOME!!!! Richardson Jane, burnt in the recent fires has finally been brought home and released. RJ was an absolute mess when she came into care with Sue. It was round the clock trauma and burn care. Will all our facilities full, Port ...Macquarie Koala Hospital kindly offered to have RJ while she was recouperating and waiting for her habitat to regrow. IFAW was also a great support during this difficult time in our state. Our secretary, Loreto and treasurer Ray, took a road trip today to Pt Macquarie KOALA HOSPITAL and was met by Josie from IFAW and returned this lucky girl home. So thankyou to everybody for your support and assistance. This makes all the hard work worthwhile. NBN news aired the great moment.NEWCASTLE HERALD AND PORT STEPHANS EXAMINER ALSO COVEREDCLICK HERE TO SEE

9/5/2014

ANOTHER GREAT RESULT rJ WAS RELEASED A VERY HAPPY GROUP OF CARES AND RESCUERSAND A LOT OF MEDIA ATTENTION NEWSPAPER STORIESGOOD LUCK RJ